Physical AI and economic nationalism at BetaKit Most Ambitious: Town Hall
Waabi’s Raquel Urtasun and CCI’s Jim Balsillie came to Toronto Tech Week armed with data and predictions.
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AI sovereignty & defence tech at BetaKit Most Ambitious: Town Hall
Evan Solomon, leaders from Xanadu, Dominion Dynamics, Sentinel R&D got candid at Town Hall.
How Toronto Tech Week became Canada’s largest grassroots tech event
Co-directors Julia Konefal and Mell Truong explain how TTW went from experiment to 600 events in just two years.
Harjit Sajjan reports for duty
After decades in public service, former defence minister Harjit Sajjan is now a defence-tech entrepreneur.
Evaluating Canada’s Defence Industrial Strategy
The DIS adds clarity to Canada’s defence spending commitments, but not their outcomes.
How StackAdapt quietly built an adtech giant
StackAdapt CEO Vitaly Pecherskiy says AI has changed what customers need from software.
How to fix Canadian VC
Canada faces structural capital challenges requiring collective action.
How to fix Canada’s Start-up Visa
Boris Wertz and Lucy Hargreaves discuss what a 10 to 35-year wait says about Canada’s capacity to attract entrepreneurial…
Is BDC too big to change?
Canadian VCs who rely on the Crown corporation have feedback on its “steady hand” approach. Who’s listening?
An insider’s take on Canada’s AI task force report
Former ISED senior policy advisor Jaxson Khan on how public consultations might inform Canada’s AI future.
Why Y Combinator cut Canada out
John Ruffolo joins to discuss fuzzy data, “bullshit” narratives, and the real problems hampering Canadian tech.
TikTok and Grok are messes Canada can’t clean up
What’s a middle power to do in the face of algorithms controlled by global superpowers (and their supporters)?
The Canadian company solving AI’s latency problem
PolarGrid CEO Rade Kovacevic believes GenAI video and voice will be killer apps once they can function in real-time.
The future is a four-day workweek
Jared Lindzon’s new book says the future of work is more productive employees working fewer days.
The biggest tech questions of 2026
Robots, and IPOs, and AI, Oh My! 2026 poses many tech questions.